climatology final (my final straw)

Climate Impacts

  1. What are Representative Concentration Pathways?

  2. What are the four primary RCPs?

  3. How do the RCPs correspond to carbon dioxide concentrations?

  4. What are Shared Socioeconomic Pathways?

  5. How do SSPs and RCPs get used together?

  6. What are the two primary factors that lead to sea level rise?

Climate & Ethics

  1. What are the Six Americas? How are the different audiences characterized?

  2. Within which audience do most people fall? How have the number of people in the different groups changed from 2012 to 2022?

Climate & Economics

  1. What is meant by the social cost of carbon?

  2. What are command and control regulations? Have these been successful? What are some challenges associated with command and control?

  3. What is cap and trade? What are some potential benefits of cap and trade? How does cap and trade provide some flexibility?

  4. What is a price on carbon?

Adaptation & Mitigation

  1. What are the three main goals when it comes to combatting climate change?

  2. What are fossil fuels? What are examples of some? What are the advantages and disadvantages of fossil fuels?

  3. What is the IPCC?

  4. What is the Conference of the Parties? Why was COP21 significant? What is the Paris Agreement? Was this agreement enough?

Reasons for Hope

  1. How is the climate crisis a humanitarian, biodiversity, and water crisis?